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Difficulty is in the eye of the solver. I've posted clues that I'd worried were far too easy and people have struggled. I've posted clues that I thought were absolutely fiendish and someone's posted the correct answer within a couple of minutes.
I'm sure that many of us will have have had the experience where we've gazed at a crossword for half an hour, written in two answers and given up, only to pick it up the next day and polish it off in a few minutes.
One thing that can be relied on with absolute certainty in the CCC OTD is that whenever the setter declares a clue to be easy, people struggle with it.
It should be noted, by the way, that we can't use the T-word round here.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yes - as I say, it's really hard to judge when you know the answer already. Solutions to any problem are nearly always obvious in retrospect.
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PeejayAdams wrote: we can't use the T-word round here
Trumpet?
Transgender?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Trumpet?
Transgender?
No, not those! Oh, God! You're going to make me say it ... T***derbirds!
To me, it was a rather innovative if somewhat repetitive bit of television but to others it was lazy, ill-considered and pushed the boundaries of plausibility way too far. Let's not discuss it any further or before we know it certain people will be calling each other a snow-globe or a librarian or something and threatening to shoot each other in the faeces or whatever it is that they do. I've said too much already, if there's going to be any further discussion on this matter, let's move it to The Dopebox ...
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I'm thinking "eliminate" but it would still have a tense issue with devour.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You're right.
That was pointed out too - ok, slightly careless, but I don't think it stops anyone getting it. You did.
You win.
I will do better next time (if...)
Now get the other ones! They're easy!
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They're not easy now that you've said that they are!
I'm certainly struggling with "Is it a bird ..."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Quote: 3. Build a fake type (9)
Comic Sans
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Fabricate ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Stupid me - I couldn't think how to correct the clue, and all I had to do was change "takes" to "took"... <sigh> next time.... if... I'm clearly not at my sharpest in the morning's...
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Devour would still be synonymous with "eat" rather than "ate", I'd have thought ...
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I think I'm going for a siesta!
But.. you can us "ate" in the past tense. It may not be technically correct, but people do:
"I ate a banana yesterday"
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"I ate a banana yesterday" would be correct, "I devour a banana yesterday", on the other hand ...
Maybe "consumed" would be a better route.
Either way, a siesta sounds like a damned fine idea - I just need to run it by the boss
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Wake me when I'm awake!
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psst - you do know it's your turn - responsibility, even! - to post today's CCC?
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I think that "duty" would be the word!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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"Camoflage"?
[edit]
- Build a fake type (9)
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modified 2-Nov-17 10:27am.
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Autonomous driving cars: yay!
I've way more confidence in the wagon wheel Eustace repaired on on Mountain Men the other day.
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Call you a skeptic? I'm not sure you really mean it.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Who else gets tripped up by environments that are similar but not identical?
Example: the "refresh" widget is right of the address box in Firefox but left in Chrome etc.
...and the one that inspired this post.
I'm writing this on a dual-boot Ubuntu/Win10 box.
On both I run multiple desktops.
In Ubuntu the desktop switching shortcut is <ctrl><alt><arrow-key>
Try THAT in Win10! Good for a double-take if you haven't met it before.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Try moving the mouse around in a coordinated fashion after that, it's next to impossible!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I once had a colleague who always held the mouse upside-down. She was a graphic designer and was drawing stuff like that with amazing dexterity.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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